I might be off topic, just trying grasp the focus of this thread.
Is the quality of the site or ads any different than those sites with Google Adsense on them? Are the quality of those contextual ads any more relevant. Can the same be said for any site that has overture, mirago, espotting or google adsense for income revenue purposes..but even if you build content around it... Its duplicate content.
There are half a dozen dvd merchants, including amazon, who purchase their dvd product database from the same company, usually given away by the synopsis...is this duplicate content? Should they get indexed?
Are we in a roundabout way talking about duplicated content? Is not using a purely a merchants product feed duplicate content? Unless of course you build additional content around these forms income generation...you have to monetise somehow on the page to produce income - but there is still duplicate content.
But, who can claim to be the judge & jury of quality content? Quality content is subjective, it may qualify in the eyes of one but not in anothers. Is quality based on because a site looks pretty or the actual copy is good..again all subjective...basically quality content is purely in the eyes of the beholder & based on personal opinion....The judge & jury, whether right or wrong is the search engines algorithmn and what you see in the SERPs.
Google maybe the search engine of today, but will it be tomorrow?...What i
am suggesting is plan accordingly & for eventualities also.
BTW doesn't Espotting backfill get supplied from Mirago?
I
am not having a rant, just trying to ascertain whether the focus of the conversation is the disapproval of sites with sponsored results appearing on them or that fact that search engines like Google index them?